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Last night's Daily Show:

 

 

STEWART: Here's what puzzles me most, Rob. John Kerry's record in Vietnam is pretty much right there in the official records of the US military, and haven't been disputed for 35 years?

 

CORDDRY: That's right, Jon, and that's certainly the spin you'll be hearing coming from the Kerry campaign over the next few days.

 

STEWART: Th-that's not a spin thing, that's a fact. That's established.

 

CORDDRY: Exactly, Jon, and that established, incontravertible fact is one side of the story.

 

STEWART: But that should be -- isn't that the end of the story? I mean, you've seen the records, haven't you? What's your opinion?

 

CORDDRY: I'm sorry, my *opinion*? No, I don't have 'o-pin-i-ons'. I'm a reporter, Jon, and my job is to spend half the time repeating what one side says, and half the time repeating the other. Little thing called 'objectivity' -- might wanna look it up some day.

 

STEWART: Doesn't objectivity mean objectively weighing the evidence, and calling out what's credible and what isn't?

 

CORDDRY: Whoa-ho! Well, well, well -- sounds like someone wants the media to act as a filter! [high-pitched, effeminate] 'Ooh, this allegation is spurious! Upon investigation this claim lacks any basis in reality! Mmm, mmm, mmm.' Listen buddy: not my job to stand between the people talking to me and the people listening to me.

 

STEWART: So, basically, you're saying that this back-and-forth is never going to end.

 

CORDDRY: No, Jon -- in fact a new group has emerged, this one composed of former Bush colleages, challenging the president's activities during the Vietnam era. That group: Drunken Stateside Sons of Privilege for Plausible Deniability. They've apparently got some things to say about a certain Halloween party in '71 that involved trashcan punch and a sodomized piñata. Jon -- they just want to set the record straight. That's all they're out for.

 

STEWART: Well, thank you Rob, good luck out there. We'll be right back.

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I promise this won't turn into a PMB political rant thread.

 

So, my extended family is all gathered around for Thanksgiving dinner, and my sister's boyfriend starts telling these horrendous lies about our uncle Pete -- about how his war medals are all based on lies, and how Pete's not really a hero, etc. Everything he's saying is obviously made up, but he won't shut up about it.

 

So I turn to my sister and say: "Will you please tell your boyfriend to shut up with that crap about Uncle Pete?"

 

And she says: "No, but I do object in principle to ALL non-blood-relatives being allowed to speak at the dinner table. I hope you'll join me in calling for all of these outsiders to be silenced."

 

End of parable.

 

What did we learned last week? George W. Bush refuses to make an ethical distinction between honest claims and dishonest claims.

 

Tune in this week as we learn another lesson from the Swifties: It's morally better to hush up wrongdoing than to try to end it. Did someone say Abu Graib?

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This was also an intersting find..This is a quote from Hermann Goering talking about how easy it is to lead a country to war during the trials before his death..

 

 

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Later in the conversation, Gilbert recorded Goering's observations that the common people can always be manipulated into supporting and fighting wars by their political leaders:

 

 

We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.

"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."

 

"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."

 

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." -- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

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Now tell me this does not disturb you...

 

Sources:

Gilbert, G.M. Nuremberg Diary.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1947 (pp. 278-279).

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ClueTwo....I found that QUITE disturbing. Shit, you shoulda wrote to Michael Moore and had him include that in Farenheit 9/11

 

In that H2 video, is the axle being bent at a fucked up angle or what? What a worthless vehicle

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And for those of you who do not know who Hermann Georing is::

 

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Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich, Hermann Goering was born in Rosenheim on January 12, 1893.

 

He also just so happens to be in some way an ancestor to my family. This is something I just found out and was doing a little history lesson when I found that quote. :o

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Don't Lose Your Head!

 

Police: Drunken man drives home with decapitated friend

 

 

Monday, August 30, 2004 Posted: 2:22 PM EDT (1822 GMT)

 

 

 

 

MARIETTA, Georgia (AP) -- A drunken driver hit a telephone pole support wire that decapitated his passenger, police said.

 

He then drove 12 miles home and slept in his bloody clothes, police said, leaving the headless body in his truck.

 

A neighbor walking with his young daughter Sunday morning discovered Daniel Brohm's headless corpse in the truck in John Kemper Hutcherson's driveway and called authorities, said Cpl. Dana Pierce, county police spokesman.

 

Officers said they found Hutcherson asleep inside his home, visibly drunk and his clothes bloody, and later found Brohm's severed head at the crash site.

 

"It's hard for one to imagine that you would drive miles from a crash site to your home, turning in various directions, and yet not know what has happened to a passenger sitting next to you," Pierce said.

 

Hutcherson, 21, was charged with vehicular homicide, driving under the influence and failure to stop at an accident with death or injury. He was jailed on a $100,000 bond; it was unclear Monday whether he had an attorney.

 

Police said Hutcherson and Brohm -- friends since high school -- were drinking at a bar Saturday night and left after Brohm said he felt sick.

 

Brohm, 23, apparently was leaning out of the window when Hutcherson hit the support wire about a mile and a half from the bar, but police did not know why.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/08/30/man...d.ap/index.html

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Questionable Judgments

 

# Writing in the journal Pediatrics (August 2004), Israeli physicians cautioned against a traditional form of circumcision in which blood is cleaned from the wound not by a suction device but by the circumciser's taking wine into his mouth and then sucking the blood from the wound. Researchers, led by Dr. Benjamin Gesundheit of Ben-Gurion University, found eight cases of infants having developed herpes from circumcisers' mouths. [Reuters, 8-4-04]

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